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The Bridges Learning Discovery program prepares PreK-2 students for academic performance. It develops motor control, perceptual attention, cognitive reasoning, phonemics and semantics, and number/quantity concepts. These abilities empower current and future curriculum mastery. At the same time they prepare students to overcome learning gaps carried over from previous grades.
Students participate as a group about 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 24 weeks of engagement. Groups can vary in size depending on class management preferences. Group activities include a variety of standup and seatwork tasks. Activities change daily, always correlating to underlying cognitive and perceptual abilities critical for specific curricular areas, particular emphasizing Math and Reading/Language Arts. Detailed lesson plans are provided to the teachers who oversee the program.
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Program Materials
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Learning Discovery includes everything the school needs to implement the program, comprising some 40 to 70 items, such as daily lesson plans, visual-focusing exercises, memory-building activities, references, furnishings and record-keeping ‘expert system’ software.
At year end, a detailed report is generated for the school and for each participating student, for his or her next year’s teacher(s), administrators, parents and other stakeholders. The report documents student progress, attendance and behavior, and is ‘user-friendly’ for all stakeholders.
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No Child Left behind Act of 2001
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The Bridges Learning Discovery program employs the “research-based cognitive and perceptual development approaches” and relies on “a diagnostic prescriptive model to improve students’ learning of academic content at the preschool, elementary, and secondary levels,” for which new funding is authorized for local educational authorities by the 2001 ESEA reauthorization (Title V, Part A, Sec. 5131.(a).26).
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